The Sydney restaurateur will auction nearly 170 works by artists such as John Olsen and Charles Blackman - but there are some he can’t bear to part with.

Our guide to what’s showing in Melbourne’s galleries.

As ACMI’s Chief Experience Officer, Seb Chan wants to change the modern museum experience.

Artists and their parents become co-conspirators in The National using their work to uncover the power, tension and possibility posed by generational ties.

Jennifer Nansubuga Makumbi follows her exploration of masculinity in Uganda with a look at womanhood.

Azita’s Glen Echo, Jesswar’s Tropixx, Middle Kids’ Today We’re the Greatest and Avgenicos Brothers’ Treading Water.

In Barry Divola’s novel, his hero, a middle-aged Peter Pan-type figure, gets into all sorts of scrapes as he drives his brother across the US.

Duncan McNab investigates the fiasco of the plague ship that docked in Circular Quay – and let its passengers disembark.

Staff are hoping that the Melbourne chain will become the first in the country to negotiate an enterprise bargaining agreement.

Closing the Guantanamo Bay detention centre is a vital first step towards change in America, says the star of The Mauritanian.

For the opening scene of Wagner’s Ring cycle, director Suzanne Chaundy wanted to plunge the audience into the depths of the Rhine river.

The British actress has one request for press junket journos: Don’t mention the war. The one in Westeros.

The bubbles hold enough oxygen for three people to breathe for approximately an hour and 10 minutes before they must be refilled or unzipped.

Storylines about female empowerment aren’t enough to compensate for the many flaws in this poorly scripted bodice-ripper.

The veteran journalist has said there is something “fundamentally wrong with a system that can produce such a deeply insensitive and divisive decision”.

A haunting performance set in a defunct zoo was a highlight of the captivating second weekend of the Mona Foma festival in Hobart.

Some of the most exciting music being written is for contemporary opera: a new Australian company wants to bring it to national audiences.

Scott Maclachlan said he had been guilty of “stupid, insensitive and ignorant comments” to women in the industry, including asking them if they wanted sexual contact with him, and making comments about their bodies.

The Sydney experimental noise outfit make music that is the exact opposite of ‘easy listening’.

King, who died on the weekend aged 87, lived most of his life as a persona more than a person, and perhaps outlived the era that made him.